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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
April 3 - 6, 2012
This conference will bring together both senior and junior scientists who investigate evolutionary processes in diverse nematodes, including the famous model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and its relatives as well as plant-, animal-, and human-parasitic nematode species. Broad topics will include: - Fundamental evolutionary forces
- Evolution of development and reproductive mode
- Evolution of parasitism and pathogenesis
- Metagenomics and biodiversity
- Computational genomics of Caenorhabditis species
- Computational genomics of other nematodes
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Organized by:
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Mark L. Blaxter, Dee R. Denver |
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Invited Speakers:
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Keynote Speaker: Marie-Anne Félix, Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), France The meeting will include six oral sessions plus one session devoted to posters. The session chairs of the meeting will be: Jennifer Anderson, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Oregon Matthew Berriman, Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Holly Bik, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of New Hampshire David Bird, Professor at North Carolina State University Asher Cutter, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto Jan Kammenga, Associate Professor at Wageningen University Makedonka Mitreva, Assistant Director of the Genome Institute at Washington University Tom Moens, Lecturer at Ghent University Matthew Rockman, Assistant Professor at New York University Hinrich Schulenburg, Professor and Chair at the University of Kiel John Spieth, Research Professor at the Genome Institute of Washington University Mark Viney, Professor at the University of Bristol
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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January 27, 2012
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Registration:
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https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetingR/Default.aspx
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E-mail:
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pakaluk@cshl.edu
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